Dispensing receptacle for facial tissues or the like



J. HALPERN June 5, 1956 DISPENSING RECEPTACLE FOR FACIAL TISSUES OR THE LIKE Filed Feb. 25, 1954 INVENTOR, J27 SE'PH HA1: PER N; B?!

k E N E a H United States 2,748,823 Jiine 5, T956 DrsrENsmG RECEPTACLE FOR FAoi-AL TISSUES OR THE LIKE Joseph Halpern, New York, N. Y. n I Application February 25, 1954, Serial No. 412,418 3 Claims. (or. 150 52 The present invention relates to a pocket receptacle, and more particularly to a dispensing pocket receptacle for folded facial tissues or like articles. 2

\ It is one object of the present invention to piovide a dispensing receptacle for facial tissues, or the like, of the character described, which may be easily and conveniently filled and refilled.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a dispensing receptacle of the character described from which facial tissues, or the like, may just as easily and conveniently be removed.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a dispensing receptacle of the character described which is flat, compact, of minimum bulk and occupying a minimum of space, so that it may be comfortably and conveniently kept and carried in a garment pocket, handbag, or the like.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a dispensing receptacle for facial tissues or the like, of the character described, which provides space in which used tissues may be kept until they may be conveniently disposed of.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a dispensing receptacle of the character described, which is capable of being formed in a great variety of attractive embodiments.

It is a still further object of the present invention to provide a dispensing receptacle of the character described which is of highly simplified construction, re: quiring a minimum of mechanical operations and capable of being mass produced from relatively abundant and cheap materials, at such low cost that it may be readily expendable.

The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the dispensing receptacle of the present invention will become more readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawing and from the description following. It is to be understood, however, that such embodiment is shown by way of illustration only, to make the principles and practice of the invention more readily comprehensible, and Without any intent to limit the invention to the specific details therein shown.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is an elevational view, in slight perspective, of a tubular body from which the dispensing receptacle of the present invention may be formed;

Fig. 2 is an elevational view of the completed dispensing receptacle;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Referring now more specifically to the accompanying drawing, the illustrative embodiment of the dispensing receptacle of the invention therein shown comprises a tubular body, of preferably flattened form, 10, which may be made of any suitable pliable and foldable sheet material, preferably slightly stiff, such as cloth, plastic, leather and its substitutes, or heavy, preferably rein iii forced paper, ortlie like. The body 10 may be initially formed as a tube, as by-extrusion, or may beformed of a rectangular section of sheet material, by securing a pair of opposed-edges to one another, as by cementing, sewing, or the like. a p

The two end sections of the tube 10, namely, 12and 14, respectively, are each outwardly i'eentrantly folded 'oyer the central section thereof, along fold lines 16 and '18, respectively, so that the edges of the tube ends face one another in spaced apart 'i'elation; each of the end sections 12 and 14, forming with the central tube sec- 'tion pockets 22 and 20, respectively, whose openings face one another. The pockets 20 and 22 may each be divided into two parts by flattening the tube 10, preferably by a permanently formed crease or fold line. Similarly, the fold lines 16 and 18 may be pressed into or otherwise made permanent in the tube 10.

It will be understood that if the material from which the tube is formed has an obverse and reverse side, the tube is first everted and then the ends folded over, so that the pocket exteriors are formed of the more attractive obverse side of the material.

In use, a stack of folded tissues or similar articles, 24, may first have one edge portion thereof inserted in one of the pockets, 20 or 22, and then have an opposed edge portion inserted into the opposed pocket, leaving an exposed center portion of the tissues between pocket edges, which exposed tissue portion may include a tissue edge by which the outermost tissue may be grasped for withdrawal from the pockets.

This completes the description of the dispensing re-- low cost material, very economically, to an extent where it may be expendable. It will also be seen that, despite its low cost, such dispensing receptacle may be used over and over again.

It will likewise be readily seen that the dispensing receptacle of the present invention is compact and convenient to use and to carry and that while one side of the flattened receptacle may be used to keep fresh tissues, the other side thereof may serve for temporary storage of used tissues until convenient to dispose of them.

It will be additionally clear that the dispensing receptacle of the invention is capable of a great variety of ornamental treatment, either by selection of the material from which it is formed or by decorative treatment of the surface thereof.

It will be further apparent that numerous variations and modifications in the dispensing container of the present invention may be made my any one skilled in the art, in accordance with the principles of the invention hereinabove set forth and without the exercise of any inventive ingenuity. I desire, therefore, to be protected for any and all such variations and modifications that may be made within the spirit of the present invention and the scope of the claims hereto appended.

What I claim is:

1. A dispensing container for facial tissues or the like, of the character described, comprising a tubular body of a pliably flexible sheet material, said tubular body having each of its end sections externally reentrantly folded over its central section with the end edges of the folded over sections spaced from one another, to provide spaced pockets facing one another, each adapted to receive a portion of a common tissue.

2. A dispensing container for facial tissues or the like, of the character described, comprising a flat tubular body of a pliably flexible material, said flat tubular body having each of its end sections externally reentrantly folded over a portion of the central section thereof, with the end edges spaced apart from one another, to provide spaced, oppositely facing pockets on each side of said flattened tubular body.

3. A dispensing receptacle for facial tissues or the like, of the character described, comprising a flat tubular body of a pliably flexible sheet material, said flat tubular body having each of its end sections externally reentrantly folded over a portion of the central section thereof along a fixed fold line, with the end edges spaced apart from one another, to provide spaced, oppositely facing pockets on each side of the fiat tubular body.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 

